Re: [Help-bash] inconsistency in expansions

[Bill Gradwohl]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:15 AM, John Kearney <address@hidden> wrote:

Actually I'm a bit confused now.
Why this doesn't work
${${#}}

Anyway as a work around these work.
${@:${#}:1}
or
${@:(-1):1}


or for your example
echo "${*%${@:(-1):1}}"
echo "${*%${@:${#}:1}}"

That's the code I ended up using before I posted my question.

My first attempt was trying to do it via the string manipulation route since I thought it would work. Apparently not.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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Bill Gradwohl